"People live in order to be satisfied. An…" — Ushiromiya Ange Quote

"...Without love, it cannot be seen? ...Hah. That's backwards... Because of love, you end up seeing things that don't even exist."

— Furudo Erika · Umineko no Naku Koro ni

"Slacking off' sounds bad. However, enjoying more of your day with the time you saved by doing your job in a clever way is definitely not a bad thing. Times like that are what makes a human's life rich. If you exaggerate, it could be called laziness, surely. However, people only become mature when they are able to balance work with enjoyment. In short, if all you care about is your job, you're not fully mature."

— Gaap · Umineko no Naku Koro ni

"Fortitude is about staying cool and calmly analyzing your opponent. Do you know why? It's to counter, to give back exactly what you got, to make them not want to take another pass at you, to make them cover their face in tears and snot and forget to wash it off, to make them want to rub their forehead on the ground and apologize over and over, to completely, perfectly, thoroughly beat them until they can't get up!"

— Ushiromiya George · Umineko no Naku Koro ni

"No idiot would want to be friends with an unmoving, unspeaking telephone pole. However, unmoving and unspeaking is exactly what you'd want from a telephone pole."

— Ushiromiya Ange · Umineko no Naku Koro ni

"Don't deny your dreams, ok? There is no point at all in taking a first step, if your eyes are closed and you don't gaze at the future."

— Gaap · Umineko no Naku Koro ni

"People respect it when someone they are distant from is boring and harmless. However, they only like that person because he or she doesn't get in their way. No human would want to hang around a boring person."

— Featherine Augustus Aurora · Umineko no Naku Koro ni